.'" "'They were afraid where no fear was; thou hast put them to confusion, because God hath despised them,'" said Belle; "I have frequently read it before the clergyman in the great house of Long Melford.

But if you did not know the man's name, why let him go away supposing that you did ?" "Oh, if he was fool enough to make such a mistake, I was not going to undeceive him--no, no! Let the enemies of old England make the most of all their blunders and mistakes, they will have no help from me; but enough of the fellow, Belle, let us now have tea, and after that.

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." "No Armenian," said Belle; "but I want to ask a question: pray are all people of that man's name either rogues or fools ?" "It is impossible for me to say, Belle, this person being the only one of the name I have ever personally known.

I suppose there are good and bad, clever and foolish, amongst them, as amongst all large bodies of people; however, after the tribe had been governed for upwards of thirty years by such a person as old Fraser, it were no wonder if the greater part had become either rogues or fools: he was a ruthless tyrant, Belle, over his own people, and by his cruelty and rapaciousness must either have stunned them into an apathy approaching to idiocy, or made them artful knaves in their own defence.